Soviet Union 1984
The Cooperative Research Project website gives a photo of Casey touring Afghanistan and cites Steve Coll's 7/19/1992 Washington Post article asserting that "Casey wanted to ship subversive propaganda through Afghanistan to the Soviet Union's predominantly Muslim southern republics."
In the case of Uzbekistan, one example of this propaganda was to have the Qu'ran translated into Uzbek.
The CIA established a front organization called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya which it uses to funnel Saudi Arabian money to the Chechan terrorists which launch many terrorist attacks against Russian civilian and military targets in the Soviet Union and later against Russia
Read more about this topic: CIA Activities In The Soviet Union
Famous quotes containing the words soviet union, soviet and/or union:
“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let’s all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
—Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)
“They were right. The Soviet régime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. They have laws and I broke them. I hate tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?”
—Alexander Zinoviev (b. 1922)
“At all events, as she, Ulster, cannot have the status quo, nothing remains for her but complete union or the most extreme form of Home Rule; that is, separation from both England and Ireland.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)